Unidentified woman was strangled, autopsy shows

ROGERS PARK — An autopsy Thursday determined a woman whose body was found, a rope around her neck, in a car on Chicago's Far North Side was strangled, and her death was a homicide, authorities said.

Her identity remains unknown, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Two passersby spotted the body at 12:20 a.m. Thursday in the back seat of a red four-door Geo in the 7000 block of North Clark Street, in the Rogers Park neighborhood, police said. The car was parked in a lot.